SUBJECT: UFO IN ENGLAND FILE: UFO2848
BY GEORGE WALLACE
My family and I were staying in a campground at Horshum, England, near Gatwick
Airport and about 50 miles south of London in the late summer of 1982 when we
saw our first UFO. It was between late afternoon and evening, just as dusk
started to set in, and wife and I had decided to go for a short walk. We
hadn't gone far when our friend pointed to a bright object in the sky and some
distance away--perhaps one-half mile.
When we wondered what it could be, our friend jokingly said ti might be a UFO.
We laughed at her, and then started guessing at what else it might be. It
couldn't be from the sun because the sky was slightly overcast and the clouds
were wispy. It couldn't be a plane since it wasn't moving. It couldn't be
reflections form a smelter, because there were no stacks in the area.
The brightness was sharply contained within the shape we were seeing. Someone
suggested it was a balloon but the shape wasn't right. Finally, I said, "Well,
I'll believe it's a UFO if it finally moves and then moves quickly and doesn't
change shape until it's out of sight." And that's exactly what it did. I just
zoomed at warp speed from above us to the distant horizon in seconds, making a
curve as it left us, just like in a science-fiction movie.
At the campground, people told us there had been numerous sightings in the
area and showed us a newspaper article about a sighting made only a few days
before. They also said we should report our sighting at the local police
station. The next morning we went to the station but felt a little sheepish
when the Constable asked what we wanted. To our surprise, he didn't look
surprised at all. He just hauled our a ready-made form especially designed for
UFO sightings! We still laugh about that.
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